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American concert violinist
Musical artist
Gil Shaham (Hebrew : גיל שחם; born February 19, 1971) is an American violinist of Jewish descent.
Biography
Gil Shaham was born in Urbana, Illinois , while his Israeli parents were on an academic fellowship at the University of Illinois . His father Jacob was an astrophysicist[1] Meira Diskin was a cytogeneticist. His sister is the pianist Orli Shaham . His brother Shai Shaham is the head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics at Rockefeller University .[2]
Gil Shaham is a graduate of the Horace Mann School in New York. When he was two years old, the family moved to Jerusalem , where he started violin lessons at the Rubin Academy of Music aged seven, winning annual scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.[3] Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado, studying with Dorothy DeLay and Jens Ellermann ,[3] Juilliard School. He and his sister Orli also studied at Columbia University .[3]
Shaham lives in New York City and teaches at Bard College Conservatory of Music . He is married to violinist Adele Anthony . They have three children.[3]
Music career
Shaham debuted as soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony at age 10. He performed with the Israel Philharmonic , Israel's foremost orchestra, less than a year later. Shaham won first prize in the Claremont Competition aged 11, and was admitted to Juilliard, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang .
Shaham's career advanced in 1989 when, while a senior at Horace Mann, he replaced an ailing Itzhak Perlman to perform the Bruch and Sibelius violin concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall .[4]
Shaham won the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990, and the Premio Internazionale of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena in 1992.
Shaham has performed with the New York Philharmonic , Berlin Philharmonic , Toronto Symphony Orchestra , Vienna Philharmonic , Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , Chicago Symphony Orchestra , Boston Symphony Orchestra , Los Angeles Philharmonic , Russian National Orchestra , Academy of St. Martin in the Fields , San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , Philadelphia Orchestra , National Symphony Orchestra and National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America .
Shaham has played the "Comtesse de Polignac", a Stradivarius violin of 1699 on loan from Stradivarius Society of Chicago, since 1989.
Discography
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References
^ a b c d e "Gil Shaham Biography" . Gilshaham.com . Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
^ Hanani, Hannah (May 14, 1989). "The Gil Shaham Story: A Star Is Born, Maybe : Violinist, 18, replaces an ailing Itzhak Perlman" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2023-11-15 .
^ a b c Rooney, Dennis D. "Instrumentalist of the Year 2012" . Musical America . Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
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R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gil_Shaham&oldid=1197588659 " C a t e g o r i e s : ● I s r a e l i c l a s s i c a l v i o l i n i s t s ● A m e r i c a n c l a s s i c a l v i o l i n i s t s ● M a l e c l a s s i c a l v i o l i n i s t s ● A m e r i c a n m a l e v i o l i n i s t s ● J e w i s h c l a s s i c a l v i o l i n i s t s ● J e w i s h A m e r i c a n c l a s s i c a l m u s i c i a n s ● G r a m m y A w a r d w i n n e r s ● J u i l l i a r d S c h o o l a l u m n i ● D e u t s c h e G r a m m o p h o n a r t i s t s ● C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y a l u m n i ● H o r a c e M a n n S c h o o l a l u m n i ● A m e r i c a n p e o p l e o f I s r a e l i d e s c e n t ● P e o p l e f r o m U r b a n a , I l l i n o i s ● 1 9 7 1 b i r t h s ● L i v i n g p e o p l e ● 2 1 s t - c e n t u r y c l a s s i c a l v i o l i n i s t s ● 2 1 s t - c e n t u r y A m e r i c a n m a l e m u s i c i a n s ● 2 1 s t - c e n t u r y A m e r i c a n J e w s ● 2 1 s t - c e n t u r y A m e r i c a n v i o l i n i s t s H i d d e n c a t e g o r i e s : ● A r t i c l e s w i t h s h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n ● S h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n i s d i f f e r e n t f r o m W i k i d a t a ● A r t i c l e s w i t h h C a r d s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h F A S T i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h I S N I i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h V I A F i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h W o r l d C a t E n t i t i e s i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h B I B S Y S i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h B N F i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h B N F d a t a i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h G N D i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h J 9 U i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h K A N T O i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h K B R i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h L C C N i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h N K C i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h N L K i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h N T A i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h P L W A B N i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h C I N I I i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h G r a m m y i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h M u s i c B r a i n z i d e n t i f i e r s ● A r t i c l e s w i t h S U D O C i d e n t i f i e r s
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You may hear Gil Shaham with Goran Sollscher performing works by Niccolo Paganini in 1992 
